Quotes About Vocation

When you marry your talents and passions, you can find your path to a purposeful life.

Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life Therein he cannot be re­placed, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyones task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits." With all our different interests, we definitely can't allow ourselves to get stuck in that trap: We need to design a multifaceted life big enough to accommodate our Renaissance Souls.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

The system of prizes may turn an individual aside from this vocation, may make him choose a false road, for him a vain one, and forced to follow it, the natural activity of a human being may be warped, lessened, even annihilated.

one of the great gifts of our profession is that the process of doing what we do allows us to become better human beings.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity.

A teacher's profession is the one true profession which asks for nothing in return, but only gives, and gives till the very end.

un tipo triste que, sin embargo, tuvo, tiene y tendrá vocación de alegría

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love.

The issue is never, "Are you qualified?" The issue is always, "Are you called?

we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness. What can we do that makes us the gladdest?…I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing."20 I might even add, it's a God thing. If there is a lesson to be learned from Eric

The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and large acts, with family, neighbors and enemies, we are to seek to live out the grace and truth of Jesus. This is our vocation, our calling. Today.

I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don't you?" - author Mark Merlis

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.